ANTONIO CALDARA
The Cervantes Operas

Arias and instrumental pieces
from the operas ‘Don Chisciotte in Corte della Duchessa’ (Vienna, 1727)
and ‘Sancio Panza Governatore dell’isola Barattaria’ (Vienna, 1733)

01 Introduzione. Aria (instr.). Don Chisciotte in Corte della Duchessa

02 Aria “Per tanti obbligazioni Signor” (Diego). Sancio Panza Governatore dell’isola Barattaria

03 Recitativo “Da sì austera virtù tuo cor” (Altisidora). Don Chisciotte in Corte della Duchessa
04 Aria “Quel cor, che non vogl’io” (Altisidora). Don Chisciotte in Corte della Duchessa

Nicola Matteis (c1670-1737): Balletto Primo per li Falconieri (instr.).
Don Chisciotte in Corte della Duchessa
05 Aria
06 Entre
07 Gigue
08 Menueto

09 Aria “Si l’abbiamo, Ricciardetto” (Don Chisciotte). Don Chisciotte in Corte della Duchessa
10 Aria “Penso di già che appena” (Altisidora). Don Chisciotte in Corte della Duchessa
11 Aria “Giacche debe andar così” (Sancio). Don Chisciotte in Corte della Duchessa

Nicola Matteis: Ballo di Paesani, e Satiri (instr.).
Don Chisciotte in Corte della Duchessa
12 Aria per li Vilani
13 Aria per Burlar sanco panco
14 Aria per li Vilani [2]
15 Aria per li Bacanti
16 Tempo di Passapie
17 Aria per li Satiri
18 Aria grotesca

19 Recitativo “Sancio amico” (Don Chisciotte, Sancio). Don Chisciotte in Corte della Duchessa
20 Aria “Primieramente, Sancio” (Don Chisciotte, Sancio). Don Chisciotte in Corte della Duchessa
21 Aria “Addio, Signor Padrone” (Sancio). Don Chisciotte in Corte della Duchessa

22 Nicola Matteis: Aria (instr.). Sancio Panza Governatore dell’isola Barattaria

23 Recitativo “Scoperto, e in odio” (Ramiro). Sancio Panza Governatore dell’isola Barattaria
24 Aria “Confida al vento la sua speranza” (Ramiro). Sancio Panza Governatore dell’isola Barattaria

25 Aria “Venga pure in campo armato” (Don Chisciotte). Don Chisciotte in Corte della Duchessa
26 Aria “A dispetto del vento, e dell’onda” (Don Alvaro). Don Chisciotte in Corte della Duchessa

Nicola Matteis: Ballo di Cavalieri Erranti (instr.)
Don Chisciotte in Corte della Duchessa
27 Aria [1]
28 Aria [2]
29 Sarabanda

30 Nicola Matteis: Tempo di Ciacona (instr.). Sancio Panza Governatore dell’isola Barattaria

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About this CD

In commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the death of Miguel de Cervantes, La Ritirata and Josetxu Obregón have created a programme for Glossa sallying forth on the back of music composed by Antonio Caldara and inspired by El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha.

Antonio Caldara was neither the first nor the last composer to have his compositional ingenuity sparked off by Cervantes’ timeless masterpiece. He may well have been propelled forwards by his own experiencing the Spanish soundscape within a century of the publication of the two parts of the Don Quijote: Barcelona was a working “port of call” for Caldara after Mantua and Rome and before Vienna. For the Viennese court he wrote a pair of operas (with librettos by GC Pasquini): Don Chisciotte in Corte della Duchessa and Sancio Panza Governatore dell’isola Barattaria, and from these works Obregón – like Caldara also a cellist – has put together a selection of arias.

Soloists María Espada, Emiliano González Toro and João Fernandes invest their abundant collective artistry in bringing to life a rapid series of Cervantine characters, not least the Spanish knight and his squire. Interspersed between these vocal contributions are a series of instrumental ballets composed for these operas by Nicola Matteis, who also worked at the Viennese court. In the booklet essay Begoña Lolo and Adela Presas set the scene for Caldara’s contribution to the musical legacy of Don Quixote.